The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVE MORNING GISBORNE, NOVEMBER 16, 1903.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1048, 16 November 1903, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVE MORNING GISBORNE, NOVEMBER 16, 1903.

A most successful peered concert was given by the Gisborne Rifles Band in the Recreation Ground yesterday afternoon. Tho Rev. H. Bvaddock will doliver an address at tho meeting of the Gleaner’s Union this evening. A dance will be held in tho Academy Music to-morrow evening by members of tho Gisborne Operatic Society. The box-plan for the grand popular concert to bo held in the Theutro Royal on Thursday evening opens at Miller’s at 10 o’clock this morning. Six fat bullocks were shipped from Wellington by the Victoria for transhipment at Hobart to the Antarctic relief ship Morning.

Miss Ada Crossley, the world-re-nowned contralto singer, sailed front Hobart for New Zealand in the Talune on Friday last.

Captain Chrisp, who returned from England on Saturday, has arranged for the purchase of a sailing vessel for the New Zealand Newcastlo coal trade. The boat ivill bo brought out in charge of Capt. Foote, late of tbo barque Gladys. At the Masonic stables on Saturday, 50 horses were offered for sale by Messrs Common, Shelton and Co., on behalf of Mr G. Spence and other clients. Draughts brought from £2B to £2B, light draughts up to ilB. For a mixed lot of hacks the prices averaged HB. Mr Kells acted as auctioneer.

Tbo mission servieos field by the Rev. H. Braddock at the Holy Trinity Church yesterday were largely attended, and the several addresses delivered by tbo rev. gentleman were much appreciated. At the evening service the anthem “ The Radiant Morn” was rendered by the choir. Mr E. N. Sidebottom presided at tbo organ.

A meeting of those interested in the holding of the annual picnic for the children of the Mnlawhero School was held on Saturday evening, a good number being present. It was decided to hold the picnic on Thursday, December 17th, and necessary arrangements wore discussed. It was resolved to hold a further meeting on Saturday evening, December sth, to arrange final details. The address given by Mr McCurdy, general organiser of rlie Farmers' Union, in Gisborne on Saturday afternoon, was largely attended, and the speaker's remarks were much npproeiated. Mr ty. D. Lysnar, chairman of the Gisborne branch, presided. Mr McCurdy speaks at Te Karaka this evening, und at To Arai tomorrow night.

Mr T. B. Bax, of Wairoa, has heater, the world’s club-swinging record by .57 minutes. He set out at 9.2 oh Thursday night, and passed the world’s record of 401irs lOmin at 1.13 on Saturday afternoon. Bax experienced grea't difficulty in keeping 'awake early on Saturday morning, ibut freshened up as the day advanced When do,\ n £ f anc V swinging, he dropped a club. “ Poverty Bay is the best country in the world” was the opinion' expressed by Farmer Jones, of Makauri, on £.<s return from England on Saturday. “I have been away for fourteen months,” remarked Mr Jones to a Tjyms reporter, " and in all my travels I have not seen apy land to equal that of Poverty Bay. Everywhere 1 went in England the talk was of New Zealand. This counlry was on everybody’s lips. To say you were from New Zealand was sufficient to make you welcome everywhere. Returning to the colonies 3 spentsome time in South Australia, and from what I saw there I am convinced that there is a great future before the East Coast ns a wiue and fruit district. It would pay any young fellow to go over to South Australia and work two years for nothing and with the experience thus gaiDed return to this district. A know- • ledge of the industry is what is wanted.” During bis visit to Englatid Farmer Jones was married, and in his trip through Australia was joined bs Mcb Jones.

A' drover named Frank Polhill, who recently went overland to Kalgoorlie from Fowler’s Bay with a mob of sheep, s>ys the West Australians can form no idea of the extent to which they are threatened by rabbit invasion. He states that within two are sweeping across the country 1 ine a tidal wave, and eating everything before them except bluehush, leaving the country almost as bare as a floor.

At an inpuest on the body of John Fahey, who shot himself with a rerevoiver at his lodgings in Fitzroy Melbourne, a produced, addressed to the police, which ran as follows : “ This is to certify that 1 die by my own hand. Nobody is to blame. May God forgive me. Give my body to John Daly for burial. You will find receipts in my coat, pocket hanging on the rack. Will and deeds in portmanteau.” He was in good circumstances, but had recently undergone an operation.

A message from Hobart concerning the tragedy at Rood berry states The evidence taken at the inquest on the body showed tiiat Mrs Marshall, who was found murdered in a hut, although in receipt of compassionate allowance from the Government, possessed money, and robbery was the motive of the crime. Margaret Parker, a tramp, stated that when she left the hut, where she ■had been staying for a few days, two tramps (a man and a woman;, whom the deceased knew, arrived with the intention of remaining a day or two. She fully described the persons, but •the police have not been able to trace them, nor were they seen in the neighborhood at the time stated. The murder was a most brutal one, the back of the 'head having been smashed in, A small calico bag, in which 'deceased kept her money, was found under the body, empty.” Our cablegrams last week announced that the woman Margaret Parker is under arrest on a charge of having committed the murder.

A lady of 30 years, named Mrs Catherine O’Neill, who lived with her son in Blackwood street, North Melbourne, met with terrible injuries by falling into a fire at her home a few days ago. Shortly after noon, two women, who were passing by, heard cries coming from the house, and, on running in, they found Mrs O’Neill half across the fire in the front room with her clothes burning. The two women, with the assistance of a man who also came in, extinguished the flames. Mrs O’Neill’s son was sent for (for she had been alone in the house), and in company with the police, took her to the Melbourne Hospital. There, however, she was unable to gain admission, the wards being already full, and after treatment, she was taken 011 to the Prince 'Alfred Hospital, where a bed was found for her. The patient, whose face and back were severely burned, was in a critical condition.

St. Kilda Esplanade, Melbourne, was recently plunged into a state of wild excitement, owing to a couple of lines of standing horses being frightened by the passing of a motor car at a high rate of speed. Several of the horses pricked up their ears, and a couple of them dashing forward, ran into other buggies, scaring the horses in them as well. In a couple of moments nearly every one of the horses was in a stale of panic. Vehicles were locked together by the wheels, as the animals in the shafts vainly endeavored to tear them apart. In. one buggy a young lady was seated, with a baby, and as anooher dashed against them, the 'buggy was thrown up on one side, •tottering in tile balance for a second. The lady, however, retained her presence of mind, and threw the baby to a gentleman on the green. As the buggy fell back on its wheels again, the .one which had collided with it became free, and the horse in it spinning round, started to bolt uphill, while a young lady who was seated in it screamed loudly. Happily this horse was stopped before it had covered many yards, but the danger so scared the young lady that she was seized with hysterics. The other horses which had dashed over the green were secured before any damage was done, and order was restored* Several of the buggies were damaged slightly, but no serious injury was sustained by, any, person,

A thrilling incident occurred at Bendigo (Victoria) a few, days ago. While Constable Kays was on duty in View street his attention was attracted by; piercing cries for help. He ran in the direction from which the sounds proceeded, and was ' astonished to see a young woman hanging by her hands- from a window in the upper 'story of the Bank of New .South Wales. Kays promptly obtained a ladder in the vicinity, and placing it again the wall, ascended. By standing on the top rung he was just able to reach the young woman’s feet, and so in a measure took the strain of her weight oil her hands Both, however, were unable to move, and their position was dangerous in the extreme, as the least slip would have caused both to fall on to the asphalt pavement below. Then a man named. Denis Hannan climbed the ladder, and hold Kays firmly while Constable Gormanby, who. had by this time appeared on the scene, entered the bank, and with the assistance. of Air Barnier, accountant, caught the young woman by the arms, and drew her through the window into the room. As soon as she found herself .safe, the young woman, whose name is Annie Youlden, collapsed under the terrible nervous strain she had experienced, and it was some time before she recovered A number of spectators witnessed the occurrence, and warmly applauded the constable and Hannan, for their plucky rescue. The young woman had been engaged cleaning the outside of the .window when she slipped. She grasped the ledge just in time to save herself from falling on to the pavement.

Air Freyburg, formerly Government timber expert, writes to the Wellington Times, to prove that white pine, if properly handled, will take ' the place of kauri for building purposes. Giving an account of his investigations into the matter, he Jays : “ Almost invariably it was found that when the wood was towed through the sea from a distance to save the expense of carriage the timber was durable ; for example, the large hotel at Waihola, built over 40 years ago, and many houses in the Sounds, and elsewhere.. While the submerged portions of the timber in bridges washed by tidal waters lasted capitally, the upper woodwork had to bp renewed three or four times. Briefly put, the fibre of the wood is filled with a saccharine matter that the worm feeds on, and this is present in greater quantities if the timber is foiled when .full of sap, but even then

if the bark is removed and the wood is immersed in the sea or tidal water for three months, the saccharine matter is washed out of the fibre and replaced wj ih saline particles .which the worm will not touch. The wood is. by these means, toughened, strengthened, and made less inflammable, while the worms’ natural food hat been removed. If, therefore, the best white pine is properly immersed for three months in tidal ponds, we shall have a wood that will be invaluable to us in the near future, and also an asset that will bring a large return if exported. The very whitest varieties were much admired by London tfmbep merchants and considered suitable for the cabinet and pianoforte trades, but the durability pf the wood must be secured as suggested. It would probably be a good plan that the timber should be stamped by the Government as having been immersed in sea water as sufficient to ensure its durability. One log of white pine that had evidently been in the sea for a year or two was round to be absolutely fire-proof, and tough beyond belief,

A shark 11 scare ” occurred on the Waikanae beach yesterday morning. While a party were bathing a shark came in close and a hasty retreat was made. The Tyser Company’s s s. Niwaru took the following cargo from this port: Shipped by Williams and Kettle, Limited, 1451 bales wool, 21 packages sausage casings, 16,096 carcases mutton, 01 carcases lamb, 64 quarters beef; shipped by Common, Siielton and Co., 66 bales wool, 4 bales skins. The Niwaru will bo followed by the iMarere, due about tho end oi the present mouth.

The Government appear to be quite iucapable of controlling the Houso oi Bepresentatives, in spite oi the big majority with which they began the session. The session has boon the longest on record, and yet it has Jess to show in the way of achievement than perhaps auy within rocent time.—Hawke's Bay Hesald. According to Farmer Jones, of Makauri, New Zealand meat is very highly thought oi in England. "I went into several shops in Loudon,” he remarked, ‘‘and asked those in charge what they thought of it, and was informed that it was held in the highest favor, being much cleaner than the meat of the otuer colonies. Mutton was retailed at eightpence per pound.”

Sad news awaits the arrival of Mrs Leech and her five children when they reach the colony. Mr Leech came out from Hull with the purpose of settling in New Zealand, but a severe illness attacked him, and carried him oil'. The family are on the way out with the intention of joining him iu the colony. At Waihi between 11 and 12 o’clock on Friday morning a fatal accident occurred in the Crown Mines, Karangahake, by which a minor named Joseph Richards was killed by a fall of oatth. Richards and bis mate wore engaged in timbering between No. 2 and No. 6 levels, when sud denly tho ground above them gave way, and a big fall of earth completely buried Richards, his mate escaping. When the unfortunate man was got out it was found that life was extinct. Deceased came from the Thames. Hearing a noise overhead and feeling a strong current of air the two men at once realised their danger, Farqukar jumping clear of tho fall of earth, which occurrod through some of the sticks overhead giviug way, but the deceased was not so fortunate, and was carried by about 100 tons of slope fillings into a pass and practically smothored, his thigh alone being broken, though ho was terribly bruised. Deceasod, who was only married last Christmas, leaves a young wife, for whom deep sympathy is felt. An inquest was commenced, but adjourned until today, so that the mining inspector oan be present,